An original and terrifying mystery by noir writer Fredric BrownGeorge Weaver was looking for peace and quiet, not murder, when he rented a house ten miles outside the town of Taos, New Mexico.However, murder soon comes to occupy George s sleeping and waking thoughts when he begins to dig out the details of a celebrated, unsolved case that happened years before in the very house he is living in. He finds himself falling in love with the dead girl, Jenny Ames, idealizing her, wishing it were she he d married instead of Vi, to whom he is so unwillingly and unhappily married.”The Far Cry “is another top Fredric Brown job a most adroit, inventive, and utterly horrifying mystery. “